🚀 go-pugleaf

>>> I dove into a Atari hard drive last night and started with my usual play
>>> tactics.  It seems that the Adaptek controller will support 2 hard disk
>>> drives.  The current software does not want to see the second drive. 
>>> (No, I didn't really expect it to.) (:>)  Is there a patch that I can do
>>> to the handler to enable the second drive?  Neil?? Alex??  It would be neat
>>> to add a second drive and power supply and have more storage! 
>>> 
>>   If you've got a production drive, I think there's a switch on the
>> Atari controller board that allows you to set what logical unit the
>> drive is.  Just change that, and...
> 
> Sorry, Alex --- that doesn't help.  ->ooof!<-  [I just kicked his shins:]
> 
> The Adaptec controller will indeed support more than one drive.
> The current AHDI.PRG hard disk driver does not support more than
> one drive per controller.  And naturally, Atari does not
> encourage or condone such modifications to the hardware....
> 

  Yep, I goofed.  What I was trying to say is that you can certainly use
more than one SH204 on your system, and that you have to do a little bit
of switch flipping to do so.  

  Ow!  My shin's still hurting from the _last_ time you kicked me...
<grin>

--alex @ Atari

BIX:alexl.            GEnie: ALEXLEAVENS      AtariCorp: 408-745-2006

"How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all."